Tag Archives: Xi Jinping

Two books on President Xi Jinping's shelf drew public attention from both home and abroad immediately after they were seen in the video of Xi's New Year speech. The two books were about artificial intelligence－The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos and Brett King's Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane. The Master Algorithm, published in 2015, describes how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war....

The West starting to wake and realize that the shoe is on the other foot? In the Chinese view of time and history, the 500 year dominance of the West is only a blip on the screen and the 200 year history of Western liberalism is just a flash. Asia TimesFrench president questions China’s New Silk Road strategyEmanuele Scimia

Another propaganda piece from the Guardian supposedly countering Chinese propaganda about the current program to eradicate poverty in China and get everyone above the poverty line. It is not only propaganda.It is cynical, especially in comparison with the neoliberal agenda that is resulting in increased poverty and precarity in the neoliberal world. And in many places around the world, neoliberal policy is displacing disadvantaged people summarily in the quest to exploit resources in their...

Don't believe what you read in Western media. Polin explains how China's neo-Mandarin political system actually works. The problem with Western analysis of non-Western peoples is two-fold.  First, the West assumes its exceptionalism and attempts to impose in on the world in order to fulfill "the white-man's burden" as a rationale, but the real agenda is permanent Western world dominance. The end justifies the means, even it involves destroying countries to "save" them. Secondly and...

The essential feature of the economy at the present stage is that it is in a transitional period from a phase of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development, Xi said.  He said from the present through the coming period, high-quality development is the fundamental requirement in determining development ideas, formulating economic policies and implementing macro-control measures. "Achieving high-quality development is imperative for China to maintain sustainable and healthy...

Graphic presentation. Keeper for future reference.EcnsXi's vision on shared future for humanity China Daily

Good post. Cites David Graeber. This indicates that some Chinese are reading Western alternative viewpoints, learning from them, and integrating them with specifically Chinese conditions. But it is also about corruption in general and is not limited to China.Project SyndicateThe Next Battle in China’s War on Corruption Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong, member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance,  former chairman...

The Chinese elite has recognized and acknowledged that the CCP has a corruption problem. Western elites, not so much. There is another interesting point made in the article. During the 19th Party Congress last month, Yang was asked about the anti-corruption drive and how to achieve a balance between human rights and party discipline. Yang replied that, having worked in the Tibet Autonomous Region for many years, human rights was an “interesting question”. He recounted a conversation...

James Petras explains how China has a vision and is actualizing it, while the US is trying to maintain position. Beijing's strategy is based on economic policy. Washington's strategy is based on military policy.The analysis contains some interesting observations on the Chinese economy and where it is headed.James Petras WebsiteChina and the US: Rational Planning and ‘Lumpen’ CapitalismJames Petras | Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and...

What Western liberals assume is that the natural state of human being is defined by liberalism. That is an unsubstantiated assumption. Liberalism developed in the UK and was exported to the US and later to Western Europe. It is a cultural phenomenon that is historically and geographically based. The Western view at present is that China under Xi Jinping has de-emphasized Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' focus on class struggle, while emphasizing Lenin's focus on the party as revolutionary...